Market Direction & Timing

Read the market’s trend and set your exposure.

1. Reading the Index Trend — Why the direction of the overall market matters so much for individual stocks, and a simple way to label the market as uptrend, under pressure or correction.
2. Distribution Days — How to count heavy-volume down days on an index, why a cluster of them warns of institutional selling, and what the counts looked like at real 2025 and 2026 peaks.
3. Follow-Through Days — How traders spot the start of a new uptrend after a correction, with the real follow-through days after the April 2025 and March 2026 lows.
4. Moving Averages on the Index — How traders use the 50-day and 200-day moving averages on the S&P 500, and what 20 years of SPY data say about the 200-day line.
5. Setting Market Exposure — How to turn your read of the market into a simple plan for how much of your account to have invested, and how to step in and out gradually.
6. Breadth, Leadership & the Tape — How to check whether a rally is broad or narrow, why the behavior of leading stocks matters, and what real breadth readings looked like at 2025 and 2026 turning points.